The Diversity of Life

Question 1

Biodiversity

Answer 1

The great variety of life

Question 2

Classification

Answer 2

The system of grouping organisms together that share common characteristics.

Question 3

Five Kingdoms

Answer 3

1. Animals
2. Plants
3. Protists
4. Fungi
5. Bacteria

Question 4

Stimuli

Answer 4

All the changes in an organism’s environment

Question 5

Protists

Answer 5

Includes plankton, algae, slime and water moulds. Some use photosynthesis while others use animal like eating.

Question 6

Fungi

Answer 6

Do not contain chlorophyll so cannot photosynthesise. Feed on dead plant and animal material.

Question 7

Binary fission

Answer 7

How bacteria reproduce. One bacteria cell divides into two and the number of bacteria doubles with each generation.

Question 8

Two uses of bacteria

Answer 8

Anibiotics: Used to produce antibiotics for treat diseases caused by fungi or other bacteria.
Vitamins: Bacterian in the large intestine produce vitamins B and K.

Question 9

Pathogen

Answer 9

An organism that causes disease.

Question 10

Vaccination

Answer 10

Protecting the body from a particular disease. It is made from a weak or dead specimen of the pathogen that causes the disease.